He rolled over onto his side. The grassy meadow around them was quiet as the sun came up. He had a goofy smile on his face. He felt amazing. He didn't know why, but all of his tension was gone.
He felt a chill, then realized that he was naked. He was about to wonder why as he got up to put his clothes on, when he noticed that his tail wasn't with him. It was wrapped around something. He turned to look to his side and found Chichi sleeping contently. She was also naked.
He felt heat between his legs and saw a massive bite mark on her neck. He had claimed her. He had taken her as a mate. The very idea shook him. Wasn't he the one that said that he would never fall to that custom? And now here he was with his dick in the open air and a beautiful woman lying by his side. This had to be a mistake. He couldn't have taken a mate. He was still asleep; this had to be a dream.
Chichi sighed in her sleep as she woke up. She stretched a little and he couldn't help himself as he watched, his eyes roaming over the body that was his. He wanted to chastise himself, but he was far too distracted.
She hummed a little as she finally looked at him, giving him a smile as she leaned forward and kissed his cheek. "Good morning, Goku."
He heard the name that she alone could call him and groaned against her. He was supposed to be controlling these urges, but there was no way. His eyes looked into hers. He was lost for words.
She giggled. "I should get dressed, I bet that you're hungry."
He grunted, but didn't remove his tail from her waist. Instead, he tightened it around his mate's waist, pulling her against him. Her arms pressed against his chest and he sighed as he leaned forward. He began to rub his forehead against hers. Her arms moved up his chest and around the sides of his neck. Her breathing had picked up. He made to purr, but she pulled him down into a kiss. He slid his arms down her back as he felt her breasts rub against his chest. His lips yielded to hers as he kissed her back. She moaned against him, reigniting the fire he had felt the night before.
All he could think about was being with her. She was his mate. He couldn't even think about his worries anymore. He would just have to accept his fate.
Gure woke up in that dim room again. She hated being on this ship. She hated going into space, but she had no choice. Cooler had destroyed her planet, all before she was getting ready to marry Tarble. She wanted to cry as she thought about it. She had waited so long for him and now she wasn't sure if she would see him again.
Yogut made it sound like she wouldn't. He was so confident that Tarble would be killed. The idea seemed so farfetched to her. Tarble seemed stronger that.
Her head fell in her hands. She had been here for a couple of weeks. Yogut had come and taken over the planet with Cooler and she held out as long as she could. After she refused to become Yogut's bride, he had Cooler destroy the planet. She was forced to listen to the onslaught. Men, women, and children were all cut down and she was forced to watch.
She couldn't get the images out of her mind. So many of her people had been cut down just because she was going to marry a saiyan, she couldn't help but feel guilty. If she only had the power to save her people. If she was strong like the saiyans, she could have wiped the floor with them. She wished she had the same power that Tarble had.
She heard a rustling and looked back up. The last thing she wanted to look like was weak. That was why she wasn't staying in her smaller form. She refused to be looked at like a doll.
Yogut entered the room she was being imprisoned in. "So does this room meet your fancy?" He said with a sly smile on his face.
She cringed. "Its fine, if you like orange." Really this guy must have liked the color. It covered everything that he had. Even his robes were different shades of the awful color.
He glared at her as he changed into his larger form. He was taller than her and definitely older. He had a long beard that surrounded his face, which was covered in wrinkles and liver spots. "You will be singing a better tune after we are married."
She glared at him. "Only in your dreams." She scoffed. "Like I would ever marry you."
He laughed. "You have no choice. Cooler has already promised me your hand."
"Cooler has no say in the matter." She practically shouted at the man.
He only gave her a twisted smile. "You really think that you're going to see your precious saiyan prince again? Don't make me laugh."
She glared at him angrily. "Tarble will find me. Just wait and see."
He glared at her. "You will see. Someday you will come around. You'll adore me."
She gagged. The very idea of her being with this bastard was sickening. "Like I could ever love a monster like you!"
He made to growl. "Says the girl that wanted to marry a saiyan." He walked away from her and towards the door, he looked back at her to give her one last smile. "Soon you will be mine."
He left the room and she burst into tears. If things continued this way, she would be married to that goon and she would never see Tarble again. She wished that she could find a way to contact him. She just hoped that Tarble didn't think that she was dead.
Raditz sighed as he looked up at the ceiling of the room he was forced to share with Zera. She was gone at the moment and he was just locked in here with his thoughts.
He felt dirty. The fact that he was now Zera's plaything was driving him up the wall. She would wake him in the middle of the night for that. His mouth was driving his him crazy. Normally when a saiyan had sex for the first time, it was accompanied by marking the other person as their own. He couldn't do that. He had no idea who he would really be marking. He didn't wish to be Zera's mate, even if it was Onna's body. That really was the only part that wasn't that bad. Sometimes, he swore that he could see the girl he loved, in the heat of the moment, but that may have been wishful thinking.
He didn't even say anything as the door opened. He could already smell that foul stench coming his way. He wasn't even going to acknowledge her. That always pissed her off.
"I see that you have used your time wisely." She snapped.
She wanted to get a rise out of him. He wasn't going to give her the satisfaction. Instead, he just kept his eyes on the ceiling.
He felt a small, sharp pain in his arm, but he still didn't move. He knew better than to flinch. She always got enjoyment out of his pain.
She chuckled to herself as she drew her nails down his arm. He could feel his blood start to drip down his arm onto the bedspread.
He jumped as she moved her mouth down to lap at his arm. He made to draw himself away from her, making her smirk. "What's wrong, love?"
He glared at her. "What do you think you're doing?"
She giggled as she climbed on top of him. "I'm just admiring what is mine." She said. "You really did turn into a handsome young man."
He blushed. "Why does that matter?"
She giggled again. "If only I could have watched you bloom. I bet it was lovely."
He glared up at her. "What are you blabbering on about?"
She only grinned at him. "How many have you killed, Raditz?"
He looked away from her. That was none of her business.
She forced him to look at her. "I know that I wasn't the last. I remember that man at the commission. Tell me, were there more?"
He glared at her. "Why do you care?"
She just leaned down and laid on him. "I just want to know more about you, love." She started making circles on his chest.
He felt a tingling where she touched. He hated this. His body had a mind of its own. Her hands weren't even trying to make him feel anything, but now that he had done it more than once without taking a mate, just the smallest touch was his undoing.
She looked up at him. She could see what she was doing to him. "Tell me, love." Her tail sneaked around and slid against his, making him groan. "How many have you killed?"
He really didn't want to answer her. She would be ecstatic if she knew the real number. Between the war and his experiments over the last 10 years, he had to have lost count. But her touches were his undoing. "Hundreds." He answered, his voice barely a whisper.
She smiled at him. "Tell me, what is your favorite part?" She leaned up, so that she could look down into his eyes.
He felt like he was under some kind of demonic spell. "The screams." He said, his breathing was becoming shallow.
Her hands slid up his chest. He grunted and wrapped his arms around her before kissing her. Lust filled him, his sense of smell was forgotten as he rolled her over onto her back and growled.
She only giggled. "You really do want me, Raditz. You're mine. Don't forget tha…"
He stopped her talking with a kiss, which only caused her to smirk against his lips as he became frantic. He wasn't thinking. He couldn't think. His mind was lost. He groaned as he started to rip at what she was wearing.
His lips began to move down her body and he heard a moan from below him. He pulled himself up the spot he had been kissing, only to find a different set of eyes looking at him.
"You don't have to do this, Raditz." She said sadly.
"Onna…" He leaned forward and kissed her.
Her arms came around his neck and she mewed as he leaned his forehead against hers. "You need to run. Get away from here." She said as she looked deeply into his eyes.
He shook his head. "Not without you."
She blushed. "But Raditz.."
"I can't leave you." He whispered.
She touched the side of his face lovingly. "You can find someone else…"
"No." He purred. "You will be my mate."
Her breath hitched as his tail glided around hers. "But she's…"
"No…just no…let's forget about her, just for tonight." He said.
She looked like she was about to cry. "Raditz…I…"
He smiled down at her. "I know." He kissed her again. He didn't know if he would see her again, but he wanted this. He wouldn't trade this one night with her for anything, not even his freedom.
Gine growled as she woke up. Bardock had stepped out of line. He wasn't out of the woods yet. She couldn't believe that he had done that to her. That had to be the reason that he left early that morning.
She stormed out of the house. He wasn't getting off that easy. The palace wasn't far from their house. After the war, they had been moved closer to where her husband and children worked.
She growled as she entered the palace. They knew who she was, so no one questioned her. She stormed towards the throne room, just in time to see her mate give her a fearful look. He looked like he wanted to run. "Gine." He held his arms up in surrender. "Why don't we talk about this later?" He said, backing up into a wall.
Around them, she could hear some chuckling. The Emperor and the Prince found this to be amusing. Not that they mattered right now.
"You're a real bastard, you know that!" She shrieked at him.
"Gine, I can explain…" He started.
She smacked him. "Don't give me that! You used your musk against me!"
"You were keeping something from me!" He snapped back at her.
She snarled and he remembered his place as he backed down. "You betrayed my trust! That's not what that musk is for! Have you used that tactic on others?!"
Bardock looked like he wanted to be anywhere but here. "I…"
"Don't lie to me! That information was none of your business!" She grabbed for his neck as she pinned him against the wall.
"I just wanted to know why you didn't want that!" He was thinking of standing up for himself. How cute.
"And that was the first thing you could think of!" She head-butted him against the wall and he made to grab for his forehead. She had made him bleed. She smirked at her work.
There was laughter around them. She had successfully embarrassed him in front of the other males. Her job was done. She let out a giggle. "I think a week on the couch will do you some good."
He looked at her like she was insane. "But Gine, it's broken."
She put her hands on her hips as she made to walk away. "That's not my problem."
She made to walk out of the room, but Vegeta cleared his throat. "I know this may not be the best time to tell you this, but you're already here and I think seeing you pissed off once will be enough."
She looked at him in confusion, then back to her mate. Bardock also looked puzzled. "I don't like the sound of that."
Vegeta sighed. "As you know, Raditz is off planet. He has yet to return."
She felt her heart skip a beat. "You don't think…"
Tarble looked down. "We sent out a search party. He's been taken."
She started to shake. Not this. Anything but this would have been welcome news. "How?"
Behind her, she heard her mate get to his feet quickly. He was snarling. "When were you going to tell me this?!"
"Between the destruction of Tech-Tech and with Kakarot off planet, there hasn't been time. We hoped that he would have found a way to contact us by now, but we've heard nothing." Vegeta stated.
"You know that she's out there!" She shrieked.
Tarble sighed. "We don't have any idea if it is her, but it's highly likely."
"Then find him!" She snapped.
"We would, if we had Kakarot. He's the only one that can sense Ki." Vegeta huffed.
"So when will he be back?!" She said frantically.
"Well, he hasn't contacted us and let us know that he has landed on Earth yet." Tarble stated. "He should have contacted us by now."
She couldn't believe this. "I thought that this was supposed to be different." She turned on Vegeta. "You said that you wouldn't be like your father!" She made to dive at him, but was held back by her mate.
"Gine think about this!" Bardock pleaded.
She growled at him. "Don't touch me! You don't get to touch me!"
Her mate flinched at that, but continued to try and pull her back. "We need to remain calm."
She growled against him. "How can you be so calm? Our son is out there being tortured again! Or maybe that's what you want!" She snapped at him.
She felt him go limp. That was a low blow. She turned around to look at him. She could yell at him, hit him, and embarrass him in front of everyone, but what she had just said, burned him. He moved away from her, it was like he didn't even want to touch her anymore.
"Bardock…I…" She started.
He turned around and walked out. She had gone too far.
Why did it have to be this way? They had become a happy family. Now it looked like they were going to be torn apart again, only this time, she may have lost Bardock in the process.
To Be Continued….
Betareader's note: I apologize for taking so long to get this out. My computer decided to take over two hours to update…grrrr.